Chapter 191

“No, go ahead. I like honesty. And besides, I was never mad at you.” Ariella Rios gave a light shrug as if it were no big deal. Truth was, she knew you only hate someone that much when you once loved them that deeply. But now? Her whole heart was just full of Lucian Sterling. For anyone else, she couldn’t even manage that kind of emotion. There was, however, a thought that had been bugging her for a while. Hector Harper always said he owed her… could it be that he’d actually forced himself on her back then? “So here’s what happened,” Hector began. “We first met in the square. A car almost hit you, I pulled you out of the way, and after that, you started following me everywhere. You were sixteen. Just a kid, always tagging after me. I liked you, sure, but in the same way you'd like a little sister. But sometimes, you stuck to me so much I actually got annoyed. Then, when you turned eighteen, I started dating this girl. It took me a lot to win her over. On her birthday, she finally agree